The Pentatonic Minor

The pentatonic minor scale is fairly easy. First off, let me say that it will be easy for you if you read my fret board page.

If you have not read my fret board page, please take a moment now to look at it. If you have read it, let's begin on the minor pentatonic scale now. You will need a lot of flexibility for this one. Flexibility of your finger muscles is required. We will start off on the A note which is the fifth fret.

Now I will show you the scale from the low E to the high E strings. It will be in order, with the low E listed first below.

E- 5 8

A- 5 8

D- 5 7

G- 5 7

B- 5 8

E- 5 8

The numbers stand for the fret. The 5 is the fifth fret. 7 is the seventh fret, and it goes on.

This is a good scale for soloing and for blues. Try and find a blues song and see what key it starts off in and then solo to it. It is fun to solo especially to blue. You can find blues lessons on the blues page.

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